Geoffrey K. Pullum

List of John Benjamins publications in which Geoffrey K. Pullum is involved.

Title

Essays on the Sound Pattern of English

Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts and Geoffrey K. Pullum

This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of the theory of phonology developed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their monograph The Sound Pattern… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 1] 1975. x, 580

Articles

Pullum, Geoffrey K. 2025 The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post Historiographia Linguistica 52:2, pp. 269–303 | Article

Generative linguistics has a longer prehistory than most linguists realize. The rewriting systems that Chomsky brought into linguistics as generative grammars were explicitly defined more than a century ago, as part of a project to formalize inference rules in logic, and were later applied to… read more

Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Arnold M. Zwicky 1999 Gerund participles and head-complement inflection conditions The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston, Collins, Peter and David Lee (eds.), pp. 251–272 | Article

Miller, Philip H., Geoffrey K. Pullum and Arnold M. Zwicky 1992 Le Principe D'inaccessibilité de la Phonologie par la Syntaxe: Trois Contre-Exemples Apparents en Français Lingvisticæ Investigationes 16:2, pp. 317–343 | Article

It has been proposed that there is a universal principle of grammar denying access to phonological information by syntactic rules (in English, the Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax). This paper examines three cases in French that appear to falsify this principle: (i) the claimed relevance of… read more